microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Tray Icon feature improvements and follow-ups

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Area-UserInterface Issue-Scenario Product-Terminal
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Description

This issue is mainly for me to keep track of what could/should/would be done to improve on the Tray Icon feature.

Current Tray Icon Behavior

Left-Click = Summon MRU window.
Right-Click = Open Context Menu.

Current Context Menu
 ________________
| Focus Terminal |
| -------------- |    ______________________________
| Windows->      |   |Window {ID} - <unnamed window>|
|________________|   |Named Window 1                |
                     |Named Window 2                |
                     |______________________________|

Clicking on any of the Window items in the Windows submenu will summon that particular window.

What's to come?

"So close I can taste it" : things I'm prioritizing

  • Summon only minimized windows
  • Quit All
  • Quit just the selected window
  • Summon All
  • Restore All to taskbar
  • Create new Window

"Further away so I can't taste it yet" : nice to haves or may be a bit more involved.

  • Get rid of the ugly Win32 menu and use WinUI's MenuFlyout
  • Customize left-click on icon behavior
  • Browse tab names of the selected window
  • Custom actions in the context menu
  • How to gel with StartOnUserLogin setting?
  • #10660
  • #12933
    • wasn't mentioned anywhere in #9274 shockingly, coulda swore we discussed this.

"Follow Ups from PRs":

  • Make quake window dropdown duration not magic number.
  • Settings should refer to Notification Area by correct name (not ‘tray’) #11101

References

#5727 - Initial Feature Request
#10368 - Initial Tray Icon PR
Tray Icon Spec Section

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the Tray Icon Spec Section and the initial Tray Icon PR (#10368), then review the unchecked items to identify one focused follow-up. The issue does not name implementation files or tests, and completion criteria differ across the listed features, so a contributor should first narrow this into a specific task with maintainers.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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